Thanks to everyone who came to our AGM last month. We were pleased to welcome David Worthington as Treasurer, who was voted in by the group. David is a long standing member of RMCIA and Rethink Mental Illness and has a son with mental health problems. We've got some fundraising activities planned for the year ahead to ensure we have the funds we need to keep the group going.
As readers of this blog may know, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust is in the process of relocating psychiatric inpatient services from Edale House at the Central Manchester Hospital (MRI) site to Park House at North Manchester General Hospital. We've always been concerned about the impact that this move will have on carers and service users in terms of increased transport times. A representative from the Trust came to our meeting last month to update us on plans for transport and the Trust's latest newsletter contains the following update on the service user and carer transport sub-group: "The group last met on 6 February and it was decided that another visitor questionnaire should be undertaken to make sure that we make the right decisions about transport. It was also agreed that more engagement and communication with service users is necessary and the service users and carers who attend the meetings will support this....
Comments